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| [1]Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. |
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| [2]I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: |
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| [3]Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. |
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| [4]We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. |
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| [5]For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: |
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| [6]That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: |
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| [7]That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments: |
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| [8]And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God. |
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| [9]The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. |
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| [10]They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; |
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| [11]And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them. |
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| [12]Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. |
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| [13]He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap. |
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| [14]In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. |
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| [15]He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths. |
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| [16]He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. |
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| [17]And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness. |
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| [18]And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust. |
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| [19]Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? |
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| [20]Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people? |
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| [21]Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel; |
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| [22]Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation: |
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| [23]Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven, |
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| [24]And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven. |
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| [25]Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full. |
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| [26]He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind. |
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| [27]He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea: |
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| [28]And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations. |
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| [29]So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire; |
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| [30]They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths, |
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| [31]The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel. |
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| [32]For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works. |
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| [33]Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble. |
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| [34]When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God. |
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| [35]And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer. |
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| [36]Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues. |
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| [37]For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant. |
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| [38]But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath. |
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| [39]For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. |
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| [40]How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! |
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| [41]Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. |
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| [42]They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy. |
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| [43]How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan. |
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| [44]And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink. |
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| [45]He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. |
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| [46]He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust. |
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| [47]He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost. |
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| [48]He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts. |
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| [49]He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them. |
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| [50]He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; |
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| [51]And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham: |
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| [52]But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. |
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| [53]And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. |
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| [54]And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased. |
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| [55]He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. |
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| [56]Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies: |
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| [57]But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow. |
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| [58]For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. |
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| [59]When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: |
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| [60]So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men; |
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| [61]And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand. |
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| [62]He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance. |
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| [63]The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage. |
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| [64]Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation. |
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| [65]Then the LORD awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine. |
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| [66]And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach. |
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| [67]Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim: |
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| [68]But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved. |
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| [69]And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever. |
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| [70]He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds: |
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| [71]From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. |
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| [72]So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands. |
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